She was only fifteen and far too innocent for his seventeen-year-old self. He fought his attraction to the tiny auburn haired girl with the biggest blue eyes he ever saw, watching her from far away. He figured the summer would go by quickly enough with all the work his old man had been making him do and she would leave the summer vacation home without much thought to him. He never figured that she would take an interest in him, and even when she did and she had witnessed his dad calling him a useless piece of shit, she would realize right away that he wasn't good enough for her. Jake never thought that when he was swimming in the river by himself right before sunset that she would join him by jumping in the murky water and for once he was grateful that the current wasn’t that fast. He didn’t know what kind of swimmer June was and he didn't want anything to happen to her. Sometimes he would wish the current would take him away. Maybe down the river far enough where his old man couldn't find him and beat the shit out of him.
